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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 4142640" data-attributes="member: 3029">Folks,I'm not here to address salt in the eyes, or whether 3e is better than 4e, or whether we didn't have enough information to make an appropriate judgement on the limited 4e rules, or whether I'm qualified to make that judgement, or any of the other side topics that have popped up in this thread. And I'm just speaking for me, not JD or anyone else in our group.I am here to comment on the "do they deserve to see the rules because they used to work for the company?" topic.FYI, I asked to get on the playtest list in September.JD asked around that time, too.In November or December, they asked me if I would be interested in working on a 4e project. I don't them I didn't have time in my schedule but they should talk to JD, as he might.It's now April, and neither of us has seen any playtest documents. We haven't seen anything that isn't already public info (like stuff from DDE).Neither of us is on a blacklist; they asked me to write some 4e stuff, and JD is currently designing Star Wars stuff for them. Yet despite both of us asking to get an NDA so we can see the playtest materials and build an informed opinion (which, mind you, the NDA would keep us from expressing, good or bad), and being offered or actually doing work for the company, neither of us have actually seen the docs.It's not a question of "deserving" to see the rules. Or sour grapes. Or an unreasonable preset bias against the new edition. I WANT to see 4E. I WANT to be able to play it and see how it all fits together. But yet again, just like with the extremely-delayed GSL for Early Adopter publishers, Wizards has dropped the ball somewhere, and because of that I am left with the same scant information that everyone else has. I could be gushing about the game right now, but instead I (and other 3E designer grognards) have, at best, a "meh" attitude toward it because they haven't given me enough information.</blockquote>

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